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Web Cartography
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Web Cartography

by Ian Muehlenhaus
December 2013
Beginner content levelBeginner
262 pages
8h 5m
English
CRC Press
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Animation
Introduction
Static data visualizations aside, one of the most fundamental shifts that
digital cartography has brought about is the ability to animate one’s maps.
What is map animation? Essentially, it is the use of different motion tech-
niques (largely devised by the lm and cartoon industry over the past
100years) to display data change on a map.
We have grown so accustomed to animated maps within the past decade
that it is easy to forget that animated mapping has been a long time in the
making. (For fascinating reading on the history and evolution of animated
cartography, see Harrower, 2004.) Animated maps began appearing as ...
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